Reports of a knife found buried at the estate of disgraced football star and Hollywood actor OJ Simpson are being investigated by the LAPD, according to reports by TMZ. Apparently, the knife was found by a construction worker during the demolition of his former home in 1998. The construction worker allegedly handed the knife to an off-duty police officer who, rather than submitting the weapon as evidence has, until now, kept it in his own home.

Reports say that the knife - allegedly bloodstained - has only come to light following the former officer’s decision to contact the department to get a file number for the murder case, in order to engrave the weapon with the number.

Baffled? So are we.

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It was hailed as the Trial of the Century: as a verdict of “Not Guilty” was read out to clear O.J. Simpson of the murder of his ex wife Nicole Brown, America stopped. That was back in 1995, but it seems the controversy surrounding the murder of Nicole Brown is about to rear its head in the public eye yet again.

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